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Living on the margins: dumpster diving for food as a critical practice
Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory Pub Date : 2021-02-05 , DOI: 10.1080/1600910x.2020.1853581
Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen 1 , Olli Pyyhtinen 1
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ABSTRACT

Dumpster diving for food implies using discarded edibles found in waste containers behind supermarkets, for example. People who voluntarily engage in this activity suggest that it is a form of hands-on social critique. In this article, we use interview materials to describe and conceptualize this practice. The main question we pose is: in what way is voluntary dumpster diving a ‘critical practice’? Drawing on the pragmatic sociology of critique, we show how it is a question of an entangled practice in multiple ways: first, dumpster diving is at once a means of contestation and experimentation on the limits of the contemporary form of life and yet simply a way of getting food for free or having fun with friends; second, while being a thoroughly rational endeavour for its practitioners, the activity is simultaneously rife with affect; finally, although dumpster divers are fully aware that they are dependent on the capitalistic form of food supply, the practice allows them to challenge its institutional self-evidences and distance themselves from it.



中文翻译:

生活在边缘:垃圾箱潜水是一种重要的做法

摘要

例如,垃圾箱潜水意味着使用在超市后面的废物容器中发现的废弃食物。自愿参与这项活动的人认为这是一种亲身实践的社会批判形式。在本文中,我们使用采访材料来描述和概念化这种做法。我们提出的主要问题是:在何种情况下自愿垃圾箱潜水是一种“关键实践”?借助批判的实用社会学,我们以多种方式展示了它如何成为一个纠缠不清的实践问题:首先,垃圾箱潜水既是对当代生活形式极限的争论和实验的手段,又只是一种方式免费获得食物或与朋友一起玩乐;其次,对于从业者来说,这是一项完全理性的努力,同时也充满了情感;最后,

更新日期:2021-02-05
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